The first 5000 bonus miles:United MileagePlus has a promotion where you can earn up to 5000 miles for tier spent through MileagePlus shopping portal between 10/30/17 to 11/19/2017. Here is the link for the promotion. Below is the tier earning details:

Tier 1 bonus: 500 miles for qualifying purchases of at least $150

Tier 2 bonus: 2,500 miles for qualifying purchases of at least $750

Tier 3 bonus: 5,000 miles for qualifying purchases of $1,500

Note that the miles are not cumulative. So if you spent $1,500+ you would earn only 5,000 bonus miles.

The next 500 miles:Apart from that United Airlines has sent out mailers (link here) where you can earn bonus 500 miles by doing activity as shown below.

Earn 500 bonus award miles by completing any of the listed earning activity

The last 1,000 bonus miles (YMMV):If you are United MileagePlus Credit card member and shop using that card then you are in luck for another 1,000 bonus miles although the terms are not clear if this bonus is only for new members of MileagePlus Shopping or it applies to existing members as well. Here is the link for the promotion banner.

​So, if you are looking to shop within the next 2 weeks you can take advantage of this promotion. As always do not forget to compare the earning rates for various merchants through aggregation sites such as Ca$hback Monitor.

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